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Rh Near the school is the church of St. Therapia, where is an interesting Greek inscription which has been pubhshed in Bockh's Corpus. It relates to the restoration of some political exiles to Mytilene, which took place by command of Alexander the Great, shortly before his death. The Mytilenasans had made an alliance vntli him after the battle of the Granicus, but had afterwards been compelled by the generals of Darius to receive a Persian garrison, which was finally driven out by Hegelochos, B.C. 332.

, June 20, 1852.

The Turks have just got through their great annual fast the Ramazan; not, however, without one of the breaches of the peace which usually occur in this period, when the Mussulman, out of humour from his long and painful abstinence from food and tobacco, has his sufferings aggravated by seeing the Giaour in the daily enjoyment of these luxuries. Hence a desire on the part of the Turk to break the Giaonr's head, which is not unfrequently put in execution; and there is an annual renewal of these feuds, as in the faction-fights of an Irish fair. A case of this kind has just come before me, in which an Ionian, having been beat and maltreated by some Turks, I had to apply to the Pasha for redress, by whom the matter was referred to the Mejlis, or local tribunal. This is a mixed court, composed of Mussulmans and Christian subjects of the Porte. The